Patents Assigned to Merck Medco Managed Care, Inc.
  • Automatic prescription filling, sorting and packaging system
    Patent number: 5771657
    Abstract: In an automated prescription dispensing and packing system, empty prescription bottles are labeled and loaded in assigned locations in carriers. Pills are automatically dispensed into the prescription bottles in the carriers. Ranks of carriers containing filled prescription bottles are assembled at stations where the bottles are unloaded and packed into shipping containers with literature printed by the system. Multiple bottles of an order are automatically packed in the same shipping container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Merck Medco Managed Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Lasher, Dennis Wayne Rice, Michael Joseph Szesko, Frank Modrowsky, James McErlean, Michael Kennedy, Paul Thomas Shupert